Tips for practicing speaking English

1. Record yourself speaking English
2. Read aloud, especially dialogue.
3. Sing along to English songs while you’re driving or in the shower
4. Watch short video clips and pause and repeat what you hear
5. Learn vowel and consonant sounds in English.
6. Learn and identify schwa.
7. Learn about weak and strong forms of common word
I want to go for a drink tonight.
How do native speakers pronounce to / for / a in the sentence? We use the schwa sound so it sounds like:
I wanna go ferra drink tenigh.
understand us!
8. Learn about word stress
9. Learn about sentence stress
10. Identify fixed and semi-fixed phrases and practise them.
11. Learn about collocations. Words don’t like being alone.
12. Replace regular verbs with phrasal verbs.
13. Learn short automatic responses
14. Practise telling stories and using narrative tenses.
15. Learn when to pause for effect
16. Learn about chunking
17. Learn about typical pronunciation problems in your first language
18. Choose an accent you like and imitate it
19. Find an actor/actress you like and identify what makes them powerful speakers.
20. Use a mirror and / or a sheet of paper for identifying aspirated and non-aspirated sounds.
21. Practise tongue twisters.
What a terrible tongue twister. What a terrible tongue twister. What a terrible tongue twister
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/tongue-twisters
22. Practise spelling names, numbers and dates aloud.
23. Learn about common intonation patterns..
24. Listen and read along to poetry (or rap songs) to practise the rhythm of English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0moGwr4huc

In the next 24 days, spend 15 minutes every day on one of the tips. I’m sure you’ll notice a huge improvement